Patel calls Memphis the ‘homicide capital,’ cops bring the Thunder in crime crackdown and the new Regional One is a few steps closer.

Construction begins on the public Montessori school’s $7.5 million expansion, revamping Southwest Tennessee Community College’s former Gill Campus building into a middle school with a kitchen and workshop for students.

The Memphis and Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine committed the money to build an economic development plan for South Memphis neighborhoods. 

Shelby County has closed on the office building and warehouse on the site of The Commercial Appeal’s former 16-acre campus at 495 Union Ave.

Lausanne is among a handful of K-12 schools in the U.S. responding to international demand for Western partners in education.

The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple last month was set intentionally, the Memphis Fire Department said in an X post Wednesday afternoon.

Operation Rolling Thunder resulted in the arrest of 160 people and the seizure of guns, drugs and cash.

“I didn’t know this until my confirmation process, but Memphis, Tennessee, is the homicide capital of America per capita, didn’t know that,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday, May 21, that it was dropping the civil rights investigation into the Memphis Police Department and retracting its previous findings into MPD. 

FedEx Freight has its first leader, St. Jude is tearing down buildings and some Bartlett residents say a developer is putting profits over kids. 

The council also decided Tuesday, May 20, an appeal of a two-lot subdivision planned by one of its members in East Memphis and rejected a truck lot at Shelby Drive and Tchulahoma Road.

In a surprise move, the Memphis City Council suspended its rules and voted on raises for solid waste employees, machinists and police officers. But the mayor has warned it could mean cutting 550 positions. 

The Memphis City Council expressed frustration about the state of Downtown, also pushing to move 201 Poplar and change the state of Beale Street.

Elon Musk confirmed in an X post how much electricity xAI’s second Memphis data center, Colossus 2, could use. 

The first phase of the project — which includes a new science building consisting of 14 labs — will begin with the demolition of the library in June.

MSCS wants more security, Ford says the budget fix is in and the Hard Times Deli guys are at it again.

Four liquor store owners and two moms have sued the City of Memphis, the Memphis Alcohol Commission and the owner of The Station over an alleged loophole in the city’s alcohol regulations. 

What the Memphis-Shelby County Schools budget says about job cuts, additions.

Shelby County commissioners drew battle lines at their Monday, May 19, session as they go into the home stretch of their budget season.

Teachers with a bachelor’s degree will start with a salary of $51,000 annually and can top out at $76,296.

The new center should serve the community for at least the next decade, while replacing a facility the Bartlett Police Department had outgrown.

The Tuesday council day at City Hall also features a full briefing on a 120-year old brick culvert beneath the fire department’s maintenance shop that is at risk of “catastrophic failure.”

Chandler announced last week that he was leaving his position as executive director of the Germantown Performing Arts Center.

An old drive-in gets a new life, Fawn serves upscale comfort food and there’s more to the Memphis Grizzlies’ name than you might think. 

You know the Memphis NBA team is named the Grizzlies because they moved from Vancouver. But why did the Vancouver team have that name?